2 Samuel 14:6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁶ 1 And she said: Let the king remember the Lord his God, that the next of kin be not multiplied to take revenge, and that they may not kill my son. And he said: As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And your handmaid had two sons, and they quarreled with one another in the field. There was no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and killed him.

Common English Bible

⁶ Your servant had two sons, but the two of them fought in the field. No one could separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And your handmaid had two sons. And they quarreled against one another in the field. And there was no one there who would be able to stop them. And one struck the other, and killed him.

2 Samuel 14:6 Cross References

Exodus 2:13

5 And Pharao heard of this word and sought to kill Moses: but he fled from his sight, and abode in the land of Madian, and he sat down by a well.

Genesis 4:8

And Cain said to Abel his brother: Let us go forth abroad. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew him.

2 Samuel 14:5

0 And the king said: If any one shall say ought against thee, bring him to me, and be shall not touch thee any more.

2 Samuel 14:7

2 Then the woman said: Let thy handmaid speak one word to my lord the king. And he said: Speak.

2 Samuel 13:28

3 Now therefore let not my lord the king take this thing into his heart, saying: All the king's sons are slain: for Amnon only is dead.

2 Samuel 13:29

4 But Absalom fled away: and the young man that kept the watch, lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold there came much people by a by-way on the side of the mountain.